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Topic: Ellipsoid Solid (Read 7049 times)

I’m investigating a method for sculpting solids with surface entities for a ‘work in progress’ routine that I have posted over at swamp.org. The routine posted below served as an early test-bed, and I think it could serve as a good intermediate level “3D Entities” example here as well.

This is definitely a ‘no frills’ routine. It’s only objective is to place an ellipsoid of specified dimensions at the WCS origin. Though not generally in high demand, an ellipsoid is a tricky shape to make as a 3dSolid, so this routine has some measure of practicality.

An added benefit to the method I used was that it imbued the shape with snapable quadrants (via END osnap).

The method, though, has the drawback that it uses objects available only in AutoCAD 2011.